Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

I'm Australian. I dated a French girl for 3 years. This movie is such an accurate representation of our relationship. Her exes or "friends" were always in the picture. The text messages are claimed to be "not that bad". "Messaging is not cheating" apparently. It gets to a stage where every single guy she knows, you automatically assume that she slept with him. And it's right 90% of the time. Just like Jack, I went through the situation of realizing that my girlfriend is a slut. So many lines in this film are direct quotes of hers. So many situations are exactly the same. Meeting the parents, "oh insults already". Insults in French were non-stop from her family. As I learnt French and could understand more and more I couldn't be around her family at all.  Every issue raised about her family or her meeting up with "friends" (exes) was met with anger. All blame was put on me of course. In the end I concluded that despite what she says, she does not believe in monogamous relationships. It's safe to say that I'm not a fan of the French. I find them immoral.

French photographer Marion (Julie Delpy) and American interior designer Jack (Adam Goldberg) are visiting her crazy sexually inappropriate parents. Their relationship is having trouble and meeting her flirtatious ex-boyfriends and inappropriate parents does not help.Julie Delpy writes, directs, and apparently does everything else in her little indie. This film takes place in Paris over a 2 day period. The parents (Julie's real life parents) are hilarious. There is a lot of fun making Jack uncomfortable. And Adam Goldberg is always great at playing being uncomfortable. The meetings near the end are problematic coincidences. I'm willing to give that a pass. It is a movie after all. What makes this film is the good fun we have at Jack's expense.

What can I tell about Julie Delpy? After watching Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), both this year in the same day, I took some time looking for other movies she's in, and this woman rocks.This movie is wonderful in all senses. If you're expecting something like Before Sunset or Sunrise, you're right. If you think that it will be the same thing, you're wrong. If you think that you will spend 96 minutes just hearing dialogs, you're right. If you think you'll get bored, you're wrong. If you think this is a love story, you're right. If you think that it's a ordinary one, you're wrong.Even being a romantic comedy, it surprises you all the time becoming a terrific romantic comedy. I recommend for those ones that love this kind of genre but is tired to always watch the same things. The ironic dialogs are great from the beginning to the end, there are moments truly hilarious and intelligent without being cliché.Julie Delpy directed, wrote, edited, produced, composed the original score and also is the main actress. This woman is brilliant, I'm fascinated by her and each new work she's in.

I'm a pain in the arse. I liked the scene in this film where Dad Delpy is "keying" the cars that are parked on the sidewalk. Adam Goldberg tells him to run for politics but I like the directness of keying the cars. It puts the power into the peoples hands and out of politician's hands and it saves time. Even though I would never do it. Better to throw eggs. Sure, that means you have to walk around with eggs in your pocket but there's always a price, right?The baffling thing about this film is that Julie Delpy is writing about two neurotics where the girl is a self-centered liar. How odd.In the scene where they are kicked out of the restaurant, her character IS being unreasonable and SHOULD be kicked out.Goldberg says more than once that he knows she's had sex with other men, but why does she have to lie about it? She has a personal voice-over where she acknowledges that it's OK to lie about things if you probably won't be discovered.In the end, the couple seems to stay together because they are too tired to move on to the next drama. In fact, if she'd stop lying, they'd have a pretty good relationship.This is a cute movie for it's nice grasp of family life, past sexual history (where Mom once did Jim Morrison) and idiot cabdrivers. All of the actors were funny and- there was a shot of the mini (?) "Statue Of Liberty" in Paris and I thought they were back in New York and I was disappointed.This is a good movie but one where Delpy casts a woman (herself) as the "bad guy" in the relationship. Is she a saint or something? It's so rare to see a woman intentionally casting herself as flawed. Kind of refreshing.